List of famous prison deaths
This is a list of famous people who have died in prison. Not those who were executed as punishment of their crimes.
- Abu Abbas, (natural causes), 2004 - terrorist
- Walter Breen, 1993 - American child molester
- Jeffrey Dahmer, (homicide), 1994 - American serial killer; beaten to death by a fellow inmate.
- Byron De La Beckwith, (heart attack), 2001 - American assassin
- Anthony Van Egmond, 1838 - Dutch war veteran and an early settler in the Huron Tract.
- John Gotti, (throat cancer), 2002 - American mafia boss.
- John Geoghan, (homicide), 2003 - Catholic priest and child molester
- Rudolf Hess, (suicide], 1987 - Nazi.
- Myra Hindley, (lung cancer), 2003 - British serial killer.
- Bobby Sands, (hunger strike), 1981 - Irish republican.
- Harold Shipman, (suicide), 2004 - British doctor, who killed many of his patients.
- Fred West, (suicide), 1995 - Killed himself whilst awaiting trial for murder.
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